Morty Comix # 2677

Morty Comix # 2677 was tacked up on the "Happenings" portion of the public bulletin at the Olympia, Washington Eastside Food Co-Op.

In 1976 this building was the business headquarters for a local RV sales place. I had a brief job there washing and moving around giant Winnebagos. They fired me because I couldn't work on a weekend outside my schedule due to something else I had planned. I remember I had a co-worker from Germany who was pretty fun. My salary was probably 2 bucks an hour. Back then jobs were easy to come by, so I moved on. No big deal.

All the sales staff at that RV place looked like the kind of people I draw in Morty Comix, come to think of it! I had a wide variety of employment opportunities when I was young that introduced me to many characters who no doubt shaped my view of human nature and thus my portraits in Morty Comix.

Life is funny.

The past episode mentioned above contributed to my story "Scabies Escapadies"

Steve Willis Archives v. 1

1st edition, March 1991. Chico, California : Onward Comics. 50 copies. Blue cover, regular digest size.

Jeff Nicholson expanded the Stevetreads idea in this series. But unlike the former title, all four volumes in this were published at the same time.

Volume 1 was basically an enlarged version of Stevetreads # 1, a consistent pattern throughout the Archives.

The image in this work that captures my attention the most is the ad for One Normal Guy Talking With a Nut, which I don't believe has been posted on this blog before.

Stevetreads # 1

1st edition, 1987, Chico, California : Jeff Nicholson. 3 copies, regular digest size.

That's right, only 3 copies.

The hopefully-not-really-retired-from-comix-for-life cartoonist Jeff Nicholson, creator of Ultra Klutz, Through the Habitrails, Colonia, and Father and Son published a 4-issue short run of this "bootleg" Stevetreads series to fill out his own collection.

I believe everything in this first issue has already been scanned and posted here in various places.

We'll be seeing quite a bit of Jeff's work down the road when I reach the part of the backlog containing our Ultra Klutz jam.

Hmm, I see a cat hair got into the scan of the final page. That makes it a cat scan, right? I guess I should've stopped the machine by hitting the paws button. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

Retreads # 2

1st edition, 1984, 50 copies, light creme cover, enlarged digest size.

2nd edition, May 1984, 30 copies, dark creme cover, enlarged digest size.

1st Danger Room Reprint edition, 5 copies, blue cover, enlarged digest size.

Trivia:

Pages 3-4: True story except for the joining the Army part. It happened in 1979.

Page 16: Dialogue was supplied by Robert Stump, Hopewell, Virginia.

Page 23-24: Another totally true story. It happened in 1976.

Back cover: That's me quoting Eliot, Morty quoting himself.